Nothing Was the Same
10 best books like Nothing Was the Same (Kay Redfield Jamison): The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, The Preaching Life, This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
| Author | Susan J. Douglas |
| ISBN | 0743260465 |
Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sensational coverage of dangerous day care, the media-manufactured "mommy wars" between working mothers and stay-at-home moms, and more -- The Mommy Myth...
Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
| Author | Howie Mandel |
| ISBN | 0553807862 |
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.
Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host...
| Author | Cristina Page |
| ISBN | 0465054900 |
this book made me really angry. like gripping the book so hard that my knuckles turned red angry. so i think page accomplished her goal. it's a look at the measures that the anti-choice movement goes to to prevent access to contraceptives. of course, there is a talk on abortion but it's main focus is birth...
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Betsy Israel |
| ISBN | 0380976498 |
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to...
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
| Author | Lynn Peril |
| ISBN | 0393323544 |
Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink" when they thought of what it meant to be a woman. Attaining feminine perfection meant conforming to a mythical standard, one that would come wrapped...
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
| Author | Rebecca Mead |
| ISBN | 1594200882 |
Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...
| Author | Lillian Daniel |
| ISBN | 0802864759 |
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
| Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
| ISBN | 0316027677 |
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...
| Author | Alexander Waugh |
| ISBN | 0385520603 |
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and...
| Author | Norris Church Mailer |
| ISBN | 1400067944 |
A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer’s greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Norris Church Mailer has led a life as large and as colorful as her husband’s—and every bit as engaging.
Growing...
| Author | Fred Thompson |
| ISBN | 0307460304 |
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a...
| Author | Paul Shaffer |
| ISBN | 0385524838 |
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
| Author | Maggie Griffin |
| ISBN | 1401324045 |
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
| Author | Kate Braestrup |
| ISBN | 0316031917 |
In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment...
The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Anne Kingston |
| ISBN | 0312425007 |
Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a journey into the wedding industrial complex. Anne Kingston looks at "wife backlash," and the new wave of neo-traditionalism that urges...
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
| Author | Paula Butturini |
| ISBN | 1594488975 |
A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, and friendship.
Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four...
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
| Author | Helena Andrews |
| ISBN | 0061778826 |
Strong, sassy, always surprising—and titled after a Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” monologue by Tina Fey—Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter…...
The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
| Author | Robert Kuttner |
| ISBN | 1324003650 |
The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government—and win the election—Democrats need to nominate and elect an economic progressive. The Stakes explains how the failure of the economy to serve ordinary Americans...
Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's
| Author | Andrea Gillies |
| ISBN | 0307719111 |
Keeper is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss" - an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease.
Five years ago, Andrea Gillies - writer, wife, and mother...
Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life
| Author | Daniel Asa Rose |
| ISBN | 0061708704 |
“One of the funniest, most touching and bizarre nonfiction books I’ve read.”
—Boston Globe
Larry’s Kidney is Daniel Asa Rose’s wild-and-crazy memoir about his trip to Beijing, China, to help his black-sheep cousin Larry receive an illegal kidney transplant,...
| Author | Harry Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0345503740 |
Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein's selfless mother struggles to keep...
| Author | Paul Mooney |
| ISBN | 1416587950 |
OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years, whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country, Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive... and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always...
Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
| Author | Cybill Shepherd |
| ISBN | 0060193506 |
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside view of network sit-com madness, the irrepressible show biz icon tells all in her own inimitable, no-holds-barred fashion.
-- Cybill is a bona fide star with millions of fans -- a hero to middle aged...
Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir
| Author | Tre Miller Rodriguez |
At 18, Tré gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, she lost her husband to a sudden heart attack. But at 36, her teenage daughter found her on Facebook and began to reshape the course of Tré’s life. The sum of these milestones is Splitting the...
Resilience: The New Afterword
In the year since the publication of her second memoir, Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards has once again found herself living in the glare of the media spotlight. Now, in an eloquent, intimate, and emotionally powerful new afterword to her #1 national bestselling book, she offers readers a window into...
A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration
| Author | Meg Keene |
| ISBN | 0738215155 |
An Insanity-Free Wedding: It Can Happen!
Getting engaged is exhilarating…until it sets in that a wedding costs three times what you thought, and takes five to ten times the effort it reasonably should. And then there are the expectations: from calligraphy invitations to satin chair-covers,...
Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides
| Author | Ariel Meadow Stallings |
| ISBN | 1580051804 |
Unenthused by a white wedding gown and bored by the hoopla of the Hollywood-style reception, Ariel Meadow Stallings found herself absolutely exhausted with the nuances of traditional nuptials. So, she chose to take a walk off the beaten aisle and embrace the non-traditional bride within. Through...
| Author | Jilly Cooper |
| ISBN | 0552146633 |
During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans. The book is a distillation of those diaries:...
